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On February 16, 1929, four months after Ned Doheny, his wife Lucy and their five children moved into Greystone, Doheny died in a guest bedroom in a murder-suicide with his secretary, Hugh Plunkett. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The official story indicated that Plunkett murdered Doheny either because of a "nervous disorder" or because he was angry over not ...
The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics is a 2021 true-crime book about the 1935 murders committed by Buck Ruxton, reported as "the Jigsaw Murders". It is written by Jeremy Craddock and published by The History Press. [1]
The poem very loosely echoes and references Homer and some of his major characters from the Iliad.Some of the poem's major characters include the island fishermen Achille and Hector, the retired English officer Major Plunkett and his wife Maud, the housemaid Helen, the blind man Seven Seas (who symbolically represents Homer), and the author himself.
Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay wrote two books, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1994) [90] and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (2002), [91] which relate the Iliad and the Odyssey to posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury as seen in the rehabilitation histories of combat ...
Pages in category "Novels based on the Iliad" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero and king of Ithaca , Odysseus , and his homecoming journey after the ten-year long Trojan War . His journey from Troy to Ithaca lasts an additional ten years, during which time he encounters many perils and all of his crewmates are killed.
Ransom was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award. [2] It received the 2009 John D. Criticos Prize for Greek literature. [3] The book received positive reviews from the New York Times Book Review, the Dallas Morning News, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal and many other ...
The Iliad does not mention his father's name, which may suggest that he should be viewed as a commoner rather than an aristocratic hero. However, a quotation from another lost epic in the Trojan cycle, the Aethiopis, names his parents as Agrius of Calydon and Dia, a daughter of King Porthaon.